‘Reserves the right to respond directly’: Qatar on Iran’s retaliatory action
Qatar on Monday announced that it reserves the right to respond directly in a manner equivalent following Iran’s retaliatory attack on the US bases in Qatar.
Six staff members of the UN relief agency for Palestinians, known as UNRWA, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
Israeli airstrikes hit a school-turned-shelter for around 12,000 people on Wednesday, and six UNRWA staff members were among those killed, Guterres said on X.
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“What’s happening in Gaza is unacceptable,” he said. “These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law need to stop now.”
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At least 18 Palestinians were killed and many others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced people in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday, reports Xinhua news agency, quoting Palestinian sources.
The sources said that an Israeli warplane fired at least one missile at the shelter in the al-Nuseirat refugee camp. The Hamas-run Gaza government media office said that aid workers were among the victims.
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